vestibulospinal tract

A long process of a CNS neuron, that carries efferent (outgoing) action potentials from the cell body in the vestibular nucleus of the pons towards target cells in the spinal cord[GO]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the vestibulospinal tract is

A long process of a CNS neuron, that carries efferent (outgoing) action potentials from the cell body in the vestibular nucleus of the pons towards target cells in the spinal cord[GO]. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the vestibulospinal tract is

It sits within the nervous system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What the vestibulospinal tract connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of white matter.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the vestibulospinal tract. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as vestibulo-spinal tract, tractus vestibulospinalis, vestibulo-spinal tracts, vestibulospinal pathway and vestibulospinal tracts. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002768, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: white matter.
• A kind of: tract of brain.
• overlaps: medulla oblongata and spinal cord.

Questions

Where is the vestibulospinal tract?

It sits within the nervous system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What does the vestibulospinal tract connect to?

Part of: white matter.

Is the vestibulospinal tract the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.